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The way to get money from libre software is to sell support services.
That, and sponsoring, are the current and main avenues. Yet, it's been shown they're not enough. Hence, the discussion...
I think that many developers are poor at or unwilling to work on marketing efforts or creating independent business relationships, so getting hired by a company like RedHat, Microsoft, etc. to work on a project is the way they sell their services.